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Ixchel
Ixchel AmericaIn Maya mythology, the angry old woman who emptied the vials of her wrath upon the earth and assisted the sky serpent in creating the deluge. Ixchel was the goddess of floods and cloudbursts, a malevolent deity likely to cause sudden destruction in a tropical storm. The consort of Itzamna, ‘lord of the heavens’, she was zealously appeased and propitiated by sacrifices. In her oldest form Ixchel appears as a clawed water goddess, surrounded by the symbols of death and destruction, a writhing serpent on her head, and crossbones embroidered on her skirt.
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